JMcAndrew sends in this festival of snail comics. The same joke used by two cartoonists, or by one comic separated by time.
Glenn and Gary McCoy are responsible for these next three.
Also here are 2 LOL comics where the word escrow is being misheard as escargot.
Last May 24th was National Escargot Day. We should have posted these then, but we were slow to get around to it.
Comics I Don't Understand 
I visit the Dordogne in France every now and then (last time over last Christmas and New Year), staying at a friend’s near the market town of Riberac. About five miles north is the small village of Bertric-Buree, which has an annual snail festival one weekend in May, which I went to one year. Good fun. You eat at long wooden tables in a large marquee. 1,200 kilos of snails are consumed, according to this site:
https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/societe/en-images-la-fete-des-cagouilles-de-bertric-buree-regale-les-amateurs-d-escargots-en-dordogne-8958127
Images of snails dot the village, on rooftops, street lights, the village hall, windowsills.
It’s funny that Morton Salt is sponsoring the one snail.
I knew a guy who built a racecar and put a huge S on the side. That way everyone in the stands could point and say, “Wow! Look at that S car go!”
@Bill, yes I’ve heard of him — it was Mr. Snail, and the S was his initial
I know that salt makes snails shrivel up and die, but would putting salt on a cooked snail do the same? The snails are served cooked, right?
Signed,
Just another happy ignoramus
“Snail Jr.” is a good gag, especially as Dale Earnhardt Jr. (“Dale Jr.”) was still racing regularly at the time.
Interesting that shortly after the two NASCARgot comic strips, Dreamworks released the animated movie Turbo, where a snail voiced by Ryan Reylonds receives the power to run really fast and uses it to enter and win the Indianapolis 500.
What a great collection of, er, pairings! But perhaps you could have held onto it until next May 24th.
Gee, somehow I failed to see this Turbo.
Bill: For more than 50 years, Datsun/Nissan has produced sports cars like the 240Z and 280Z, commonly called “Z cars”. As I heard the joke, the snail was tired of getting around so slowly and decided to buy a fast car. Fortunately there was a Nissan dealer right on his block so it took him only a week to get there. He bought the car and asked the dealer to replace the Z with an S. And you know the rest.
A snail advertising Morton Salt? He’ll be running sluggish.
What did the snail say when he was on the back of a turtle?
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
Stan: Two turtles mugged a snail. The snail went to the police, and when they asked him to describe what happened, he said, “I hardly know — it all happened so fast!”